Scholar
Michael Taylor
Google Scholar ID: NrOOkrMAAAAJ
Professor of Computer Science & Engineering and EE, U. Washington
Citations & Impact
Citations
4,295
H-index
31
i10-index
80
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Lead architect of the 16-core MIT Raw tiled multicore processor; Co-authored the earliest published research on dark silicon and proposed specialization as the primary solution; Proposed a prototype massively specialized processor called GreenDroid; Wrote the first academic paper on Bitcoin mining chips, predicting a new era of bespoke silicon; Published the first paper on ASIC Clouds, proposing neural network ASIC Clouds before Google announced their TPU and video transcoding clouds for YouTube.
Research Experience
- Professor at the Paul Allen School of Computer Science and Engineering and Dept. of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle since September 2017; Tenured Professor at the University of California San Diego Computer Science and Engineering Department from 2005 to 2016; Visiting Research Scientist at Google and YouTube, working on datacenter accelerators.
Education
- PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT
Background
- Research Interests: ASIC Clouds, Dark Silicon, Tiled Processors, Specialization, Vision and Bitcoin. Professional Field: Computer Architecture, spanning the stack from VLSI to compilers.
Miscellany
- Heavily recruiting graduate students and postdocs for his team at UW.